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stoccado

stoccado noun: a stab with a pointed weapon.

Noun

stoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)

  1. (obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
    • [William] Page. I haue heard the French-man hath good skill in his Rapier. / [Robert] Shal[low] Tut ſir: I could haue told you more: In theſe times you ſtand on diſtance: your Paſſes, Stoccado’s, and I knovv not vvhat: […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • Yet will not such leave to lift-up their joyned hands to heaven, give them but a stoccado [translating coup d'espée] on their breast […]1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of stoccado

pluralstoccados
pluralstoccadoes

Origin of stoccado

From Italian stoccata.

Questions about stoccado

What does stoccado mean?
Stoccado means a stab with a pointed weapon.
What part of speech is stoccado?
Stoccado is a noun.
What is the plural of stoccado?
The plural of stoccado is stoccados.

Words near stoccado in the dictionary

  1. stocahs
  2. stoccade
  3. stoccaded
  4. stoccades
  5. stoccading
  6. stoccado
  7. stoccadoes
  8. stoccados
  9. stoccata
  10. stoccatas
  11. stochastic

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